Eileen Devine
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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even with that diagnose, um, that there's a lot of education that still has to happen on the parents part here.
The other piece that I say to parents though, kind of side by side next to that is
The brain is the brain.
And so, again, there's lots of different reasons that the brain can function differently and why we might see these challenging behavioral symptoms.
And that in the day-to-day parenting that they are trying so desperately to do differently, which is of course this steep learning curve, that if they can just momentarily set aside that need to know to have a name like what exactly is this, what exactly caused this.
if they can step away from that and understand
their child's brain works differently and there's some reason behind that.
Maybe we don't know that now, but with the brain as the organizing principle, we know that the behaviors are the symptoms, right?
No matter what diagnosis we call it.
So I meet a lot of parents who
have children who have multiple diagnoses like four, five, six
And many of them describe the behavioral symptoms, right?
So I can see that whoever was working with them is kind of giving having that lens.
It describes a cus a cluster of behaviors.
There's nothing wrong with that.
It gives us information about what they're seeing.
Um, but when I see those four or five, six diagnoses, it really makes me pause and think, has anyone taken a step back?
To consider brain function with this child, right?
Despite having all of these diagnoses, the parents are still in the same place, wondering what do I do to help my child?
Like they're increasingly out of control, they're increasingly whatever it might be, amped up, aggressive.
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